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Hungarian-Canadian sociologist; emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent; writes on the culture of fear, therapy culture, education and what he calls paranoid parenting.
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Bringing Knowledge Back InBook Michael F D Young
In Bringing Knowledge Back In he makes a number of arguments for why education must be knowledge-based and confronts all the different attempts to devalue it.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Crisis in Education
2010-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic EducationBook Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education discusses the recent attempts, within the last five or ten years, to take a ‘therapeutic’ approach to education.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Crisis in Education
2010-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
Left BackBook Diane Ravitch
What really comes across when you read Left Back, which is a history of American educational policy over the last hundred years, is that there has always been a certain amount of tension about what a school was for.
Five Books interview: the best books on The Crisis in Education
2010-07-13·fivebooks.com ↗
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